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Surreal Worlds - An anthology of surrealistic compositions created by some of the finest names in genre fiction. A showcase of international talent undaunted by the conventions of language and common narrative structures

Surreal Worlds,Ed. by Sean Leonard and Bizarro Pulp Press,Bizarro Pulp Press, 2015.From beyond the boundaries of the imagination and the universe…

An anthology of surrealistic compositions created by some of the finest names in genre fiction. A showcase of international talent undaunted by the conventions of language and common narrative structures. Here is timelessness. Here is Surreal Worlds. TABLE OF CONTENTS
Steve Rasnic Tem Paula Breaks John Palisano The BiPolar Express Gabino Iglesias aaaaaaaaa Robin Wyatt Dunn A Shadow of a Princess’s Dream Bruce Boston Surreal Chess Rhys Hughes Bones of Jones R.A. Harris The Noise that Stains Seb Doubinsky Goodbye Babylon (excerpt) Thomas Logan The Continued Instances of George Marthis within the Singularity, wherein the Instance Knows No Rules (George is Old When Our Story Starts) Daniel Vlasaty Everything is Colors, All of Them Michael Griffin Jewels and False Memories: The Origins of a Lunatic Max Booth III One Day I’ll Quit this Job and Rule the World Dustin Reade House Party Adrian Ludens I Can Do What I Need to in the Dark Andrew Wayne Adams Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation Wol-vriey The End of the World Pie Allen Griffin I, Autocorrect Tom Bradley Mr. Fuck You, Okay? Chantal Noordeloos Labels Don Webb The Last God Bob Ritchie The Mahler Stream Eli Wilde Snowflakes Falling, Pages Turning Antonio Magogoli The Inmost Plague Bell Swims Chris Kelso The Statement of Tom Tryout Carter Rydyr Pain Pig’s Pilgrimage

Behold: a body, mind, and voice situated in place, in time and space—moving, moved, and immovable. Steven Seidenberg’s SITU is a hesitant unfolding of demise, a text occupying the interstices between diegesis, philosophy, and poetry. The narrative’s tension finds form in an indeterminate subject’s relationship with a bench: an anguished site of rest and motion. Proving and parodying an epistemology of volition, the unstable narrator imbues their wildly despairing circumlocutions with great poetic urgency. This “thinking thinking” moves in and out of the thinking body it observes, displaying a devastating portrait of the paradoxes at the basis of all willful or inadvertent representation. SITU is a dramatic intensification of Seidenberg’s career-long blurring of fiction, poetry, and philosophy—an accomplishment recalling the literary contributions of Blanchot, Bernhard, and pre-impasse Beckett.

Leon Forrest, The Bloodworth Orphans, University Of Chicago Press, 2001.

Leon Forrest, acclaimed author of Divine Days, uses a remarkable verbal intensity to evoke human tragedy, injustice, and spirituality in his writing. As Toni Morrison has said, "All of Forrest's novels explore the complex legacy of Afro-Americans. Like an insistent tide this history . . . swells and recalls America's past. . . . Brooding, hilarious, acerbic and profoundly valued life has no more astute observer than Leon Forrest." All of that is on display here in a novel that give readers a breathtaking view of the human experience, filled with humor and pathos.

If you plow through (or skip over) Forrest's unreadably dense, ten-page ""List of Characters,"" you'll reach the slightly less convoluted now-and-flashback story of ""Mother-Witness"" Rachel Flowers, the children she bore, the children she adopted, and the orphans and bastards around them-…

Norman Levine's stories, so spare and compassionate and elegant and funny, so touching, sad, fantastic and unforgettable, rank alongside the best published in this country. Celebrated abroad, his work was largely unknown in Canada, except among the generations of writers he influenced, from André Alexis and Cynthia Flood to Lisa Moore and Michael Winter, who passed his work among themselves and learned much of their craft from studying Levine's own. His work long out of print, his entire output of short stories are collected here together for the first time, to be discovered by a new generation of Canadian readers and writers.

Norman Levine was a permanent outsider, by temperament and by choice — as Polish born immigrant, as resident alien, as writer, as Jew — and he observed life from the margins with an unsentimental eye. Raised in Ottawa after immigrating, Levine served in the Royal Air Force during t…